CRICH PARISH

George Henry (Harry) Hinds (1893–1970)

Gunner

Royal Field Artillery

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32nd Brigade, 134 Battery;
57th Divisional Ammunition Column

NotesHarry was born in Fritchley in about 1893, the son of George and Elizabeth Hinds. He joined the Army at Derby in July 1915 aged twenty-two, and entered France in January 1916. In July 1916 he was hospitalised with scabies and in January 1917 he was in hospital again in the Canadian General Hospital, this time with a foot injury. In May and July 1918 he was again in hospital with a urinary infection and then influenza. Demobbed in December 1918, he left France aboard the SS Princess Victoria. He married Louisa Staton in 1919.